A Happy Scramper

Creative Scrappers #209

I don't think I've played with a Creative Scrappers Challenge before although I've long admired them.

It was great to have some time last week to create a layout about my daughter growing into a young woman.....

First of all the sketch.....

and my layout.....

I adore layouts that show my children over the years....just love seeing the changes, the similarities, the cute little chubby baby cheeks lol :-)))

Gorgeous flower from Wild Orchid Crafts and a few teeny Primas with lovely MHC leaves.

Thanks for popping in to see what I've been up to.

Bye for now.....

xLinda

 

 

Wearing scarves!

Hope you don't mind - - - - this is totally unpapercraft related! :)

If you love to wear scarves as I do - perfect scarf wearing weather is now upon us here in Australia and I came across this very cool clip which will give you lots of gorgeous ways to wear your sweet scarves....

Love the way this girl has put this together - soooo clever!

Hope you enjoyed! Back with more papercrafting real soon I promise;-)

xLinda

The Shabby Tea Room Guest Designer

Happy Monday to you!

I'm popping in this morning to share my card for my GDT stint this week over at The Shabby Tea Room.......it's one of my favourite challenge blogs as you know:-)

The inspiration pic for Week #116 is to die for.....

...........look at those beautiful colours!

The theme for this week is  ‘Color Me Pretty’ – and you are to create a card or project inspired by the above photo and USE WHITE OR CREAM, PINK, BLUE, FLOWERS and a FABRIC ELEMENT!

Now that's not too hard is it:-) 

So here's my card.....

Papers and sentiment piece are from the Simple Stories Fabulous Paper Pad;  the flower is Kaisercraft and the die cut is a Spellbinders Fancy Tag 2.

Head on over to The Shabby Tea Room and check out this week's challenge and the DT projects - they're always FAB. Join in for your chance to win a great prize:-)

Thanks for popping in today.......

xLinda

 

 

 

 

 

Mr and Mrs

As soon as I laid eyes on Little Yellow Bicycle's SWOON Collection I did just that lol:-)

I knew I wanted to use it to scrap a photo or two of my Mum and Dad who celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary last year.

Don't you just love old photos - I sure do:-)

Here's what I used and a few close ups....

LYB Swoon 12 x 12 Paper Collection Pack	LYB Swoon Fabric Favourites	LYB Clear Cut Shapes Swoon
Little Yellow Bicycle Swoon Chipboard	Manor House Creations flower - Mascarpone	Zva Creative Pearl Flourish

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A gorgeous Manor House Creations Mascarpone flower edged in silver ink.

Lots of beautiful dimension - oh how I looooove it!

A full step-by-step tutorial for how this went together is available on the Scrapbook Boutique Blog.

Do you have any cool weekend plans?

My Mum is visiting so we are going to hit the shops tomorrow for some retail therapy and then drive off somewhere for lunch on Sunday - should be a great weekend:-)

Hope yours is too!

xLinda

Tags for The Flying Unicorn

As I mentioned earlier in the month, Manor House Creations is sponsoring  The Flying Unicorn and I have had some Guest Designing fun as a result :-)

I have created 2 tags this time using the gorgeous Manor House Creations flowers - Sprinkles and Party Lights - both so bright and happy:-)

First of all - the cheerful Party Lights -

...papers are from Simple Stories Fabulous line.

Next, we have the cute Sprinkles -

...papers are from Prima's Madeline A4 paper pad.

Thanks for dropping in to my little corner of blogland....I hope you'll do so again soon:-)

Cheerio!

The Shabby Tea Room Week 114

I am so fond of the challenges over at The Shabby Tea Room - ( I have a GDT spot coming up with them soon yippee :-))) - I don't always get time to play each week but I'm chuffed that this week I did and it's such a beautiful inspiration picture to me......

....how beautiful is it!!!  Add to this the request from host Lenet to make a shaped project and here's the result......

...so happy I created a layout to match the challenge this time:-) - really enjoying my scrapping at the moment:-)

You can see I've adopted the pink background as per the inspiration pic and used blue papers and floral patterns as per the sweet little bucket.

....this little title tag is from Simple Stories Fabulous paper pad.

...this 'True Beauty' element is from Prima's Madeline A4 paper pad as are many of my background papers.

...love the new honeycomb Hambly overlay - so trendy right now :-)

Thanks for dropping by to see what I've been up to.

See you again soon.....

xLinda

 

 

Sweet Sentiments

I have 3 cards in Australian Cardmaking Stamping and Papercraft Magazine Vol 18 No.5 that were a real labour of love. I'm not going to kid you - these cards took me aaaggggees to make lol :-) I had just received new goodies from Papertrey (the Wonderful Words Dies and matching stamps and a few cardstock colours) and I was so keen to play around with them together.

Here's the end result....

....lots of sentiments from a variety of companies.....all listed in the mag which is very helpful. Of course you can use whatever sentiment and decorative stamps you have in your stash to do the same thing.

 

 

Papers used are from Prima's Madeline A4 paper pad.

I love these PTI products - sadly I've hardly played with them since.....it's sad how that happens in our crafty lives isn't it - new things catch our eye and we forget the old - must make a concerted effort to remedy that! They would be great on my layouts me thinks :-))

I'm off to play with my Shabby Tea Room creation for this week - with this gorgeous inspiration how could I resist!.....

I'm having fun with a sweet, shabby layout instead of a card this time.....will be back to share soon.

Have a lovely weekend all!

xLinda

Scrapbook Boutique Tutorial

I'm back to share my second tutorial for the month for the gorgeous Scrapbook Boutique. have you been over to check out SB lately?? It is the most delicious store - such an amazing range of papercrafting products - I could order from there every day there's so much I want :-)

I had a delightful time playing with these sweet goodies from Scrapbook Boutique....

 

Prima Paper Pack 12x12 Songbird	Prima Resist Canvas Songbird	Prima Songbird Alphabet Stickers
Prima Notecards	Ranger Distress Ink Pad Antique Linen	Helmar Liquid 3D Scrap Dots
Prima Roses - Fairytale	Ranger Distress Ink Tattered Rose	Ranger Distress Ink Wild Honey
Tsukineko Sponge Daubers	Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Peacock	Fiskars finger tip control craft knife
Fiskars Trimmer	Imaginesce Hot Glue Gun

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and created this layout - of our friend's little girl....

...here's a few close ups....

....love a bit of fussy cutting :-)

...a gorgeous Prima Resist Canvas butterfly covered with inks and mists....

...beautiful texture from the sweet Prima Alpha stickers.

A step-by-step tutorial is available on the Scrapbook Boutique Blog if you're interested....have you 

added the Scrapbook Boutique Blog to your blog roll yet? - always lots of great tutorials and regular papercrafting eye candy to be seen over there :-)

Thanks for visiting...see you again soon.

xLinda

Once Upon A Sketch May Challenge

It was a beautiful day up at Binna Burra....

We enjoyed lunch at the Tea House and then went for a walk to Bellbird Lookout - haven't been on that walk since the kiddies were 7 and 5!

Tonight I've had a chance to finish off my layout for the current Once Upon A Sketch Challenge...here's the fab sketch...

and the journalling prompt.....

Theme: Mum

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "Mum" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must incorporate this theme and the sketch.

So here's my layout......

I have used MME Miss Caroline range and love it to bits....I have very little of it left now:-(

My journalling tag slips in behind the photo....

....my Memory Box Serafina Heart Die was put to good use at last:-)

To all the mums out there, I hope you had a glorious day too :-))

See you again soon.....

xLinda

Mother's Day Gift Box

Hey there - happy Friday to you!

Yaaay the weekend is here - and Mother's Day too :)

My fam is taking me here on Sunday -

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.... beautiful Binna Burra! Going for a rainforest walk is one of my favourite things to do and we just never get to do it....except on Mother's Day :)

Lunch at the Tea House afterwards will make my day :-)

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Happy Mother's Day to all the Mum's out there for Sunday!

Here' s little Manor House Creations inspiration if you need a sweet gift box to hold something special for your Mum....

Flowers are all Manor House and papers are from The Scrapcake's One Moment in Time range.

Flowers from MHC Party Time - Anniversary pack.

Rub on some clear drying glue and cover it with fine glitter...looove this look :-))

So glad you were able to pop in to my little bloggo.

Bye for now....

xLinda

Scrapbook Boutique May Blog Hop and Challenge

Hey there!

Welcome to the Scrapbook Boutique May Blog Hop and Challenge  :-)

There are two fun things for you to do -  the Blog Hop and the Challenge - 

• first of all..... hop along on the Blog Hop - you should have arrived here from Angela's gorgeous blog and from here you'll hop on to see Narelle's fab project. 

 

• Leave a comment at each DT girls blog and then finish with a comment on the Scrapbook Boutique Blog itself where the random winner will be drawn. 

 

• Here's the beautiful prize you could win - a beee-utiful Prima Fairy Belle Cling Stamp Set - how lucky!!

• You have one week....the hop closes midday May 17 and the winner will be announced on the Scrapbook Boutique Blog on May 18. Good Luck!

(Head back to the SB Blog if you lose your way - you'll find the complete Blog Hop list....hop and challenge open to Australian residents only.)

• Next - pull out your craft supplies and get busy with this month's Inspiration Challenge - it is a fun one - bright and bold!! :-)

Be inspired by this happy photo and make sure you use bright and bold colours!

You have until May 31 to get your entry in.

The randomly chosen winner will receive a $30 Gift Voucher to Scrapbook Boutique - what a generous prize!

Full details and linking instructions over  on the blog.

Here is my card inspired by this happy pic -

We have friends with twins - a boy and a girl and they turned one a couple of weeks ago so this was the perfect challenge to get me busy with their first birthday card..........using Basic Grey's Life of the Party Range.

 

 

Can't wait to check out your creations.....have fun!

xLinda

 

 

 

My Blog Hop Giveaway Winner

Popping in quickly to share the winner of my blog hop giveaway.....

The names went in a box.....

and the winner drawn out was.....

Congratulations Dianne H  :-)))

Dianne please email me your snail mail address (email link over on right side of blog) and I'll get these sweet goodies off to you....

Thank you all for your kind comments.

Please stop back tomorrow for the Scrapbook Boutique May Blog Hop and Challenge.

xLinda

Manor House sponsors Flying Unicorn

Throughout May Manor House Creations are sponsoring the team at Flying Unicorn in their Flower Fantasy celebrations.

http://flyingunicornforums.com/photos.html

“The Flying Unicorn is a US based online scrapbook store and kit club that not only carries many of the products you know and love, but also specializes in one of a kind, hard to find papers and products.”

“Manor House has joined with The Flying Unicorn to host a Flower Fantasy during the entire month of May and each week we’ll be posting a challenge in the Flying Unicorn Forums featuring flowers, lots of flowers! Our creative team and the Manor House creative team will share example projects to inspire your creativity and get you going on the challenges. Every week a winner will be randomly selected from the challenge entries to win a RAK of Manor House flowers! How cool is that?”

I am delighted to be Manor House Creations’ representative and Flying Unicorn’s guest this week......and I've created a couple of cards to mark this special occasion ;-))

Oh my gosh how I love the MHC Meringue flower....it looks so beautiful glimmered up with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist - and it's sooooo easy!

(Paper is The Scrapcake's One Moment in Time - love its muted tones:-)))

I gave this card to my Mum on Sunday with her early Mother's Day Gift - how I love to give away my cards to special someones in my life :-)

And my second card.......

(Products used: Sprinkles- lime flowers, Country Lane flower; The Scrap Cake pp: The Bright Side of Life; Kaisercraft Thinking of You Mini Stamp Set.)

Drop in here http://flyingunicornforums.com/photos.html to see the Flying Unicorn designers' gorgeous work with MHC flowers and to join in the challenges.

Have a happy crafty day:-) Thanks for visiting!

xLinda

 

 

Manor House Creation's Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the MANOR HOUSE CREATIONS MOTHERS DAY BLOG HOP. Thank you for joining us :-)

Mother’s Day is coming and we want to show our appreciation and thanks to all the wonderful Mums out there - and all Mum’s love flowers right?

So we are offering 4 beautiful prize packs FULL of Manor House Creations flowers. FOUR lucky ladies will each win one of these gorgeous packs.

This is what you have to do.........

The blog hop begins at the MANOR HOUSE CREATIONS BLOG where you will find a complete list of all participating blogs in case you get lost along the way.

Simply follow the links left on the wonderful design team blogs - the last stop on the hop is the Manor House Creations Facebook Page. 

There will be hidden letters on each of the blogs that spell out a ‘secret sentence’, follow the clues, and when you get to the end, and have worked out the secret sentence, go to the Facebook page, ‘LIKE’ our page and leave your answer in the comments section.

The rules:  You must visit all the blogs, leaving a COMMENT and becoming a FOLLOWER to all - (my follow button is on the right under the magazine pics) - you must also “LIKE” our Facebook page, and write the secret greeting in the comments section.

 Our design team have created some wonderful projects to inspire you along the way.

Here's mine......

 

 

As my way of saying thanks to you for visiting me and leaving your kind comments I have my own little blog hop giveaway - I will "pick a name out of the hat" so to speak....so if you leave a comment for me (between now and midnight Wednesday May 9) you'll be in the draw to win this.....

(lots of sweet MHC flowers/a Penny Black stamp set/an Annabelle Stamps stamp set/Pebbles Inc Ribbon Sliders and Pebbles Inc Flower Buttons)

The blog hop begins now, and will run through till midnight Sunday the 8^th of May Australian Eastern Standard Time. You have until midnight on Monday the 9^th of May to enter. The winners will be announced on Saturday 14^th of May on our Facebook page, and also on the MHC blog.

 The next stop on the hop is the awesome JOANNE BAIN.

 Have fun, good luck, and Happy Mother’s Day for next weekend to all the Mums out there.

xLinda

 

 

 

 

Shop and Crop May Card Kit

Hey there - I hope you've had a great week!

It's been busy busy here - I'm soooo glad it's Friday - and a loooong weekend to boot - yaaaay!

It's time for another card kit over at Shop and Crop and this month we play with the very vintage Authentique Genuine range....

"Genuine" has this lovely aged, roughed up look about it which I just looooove :)

Here's a look at the cards you'll get step-by-step instructions to make -

Here's what you get in your kit....

• Authentique  "Genuine" 6x6  36page paper pad
• Authentique Alphabet and Mini Words Elements
• Authentique Images and Stickers
• Prima Vintage Trinkets
• Prima Lace
• Co ordinating Coredinations Cardstock
• Envelopes

Hop on over to Shop and Crop and get all the details :)

I'll be back with more to share soon - including a gift box for Mother's Day and my Manor House Creations blog hop creation - the blog hop kicks off Sunday morning  :)

xLinda

Prima Songbird

For Scrapbook Boutique this month I have had the absolute pleasure of playing with the Prima Songbird range.....oh my it is gorgeous!

It was perfect for this photo of my friend's daughters....

I have used these items....

 

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I loooooved creating this layout - it was fun fun fun:-)))

I hope you're having a great start to your week...thanks for visiting my corner of blogland.

See you again soon I hope.

xLinda

My Scrap Room

Hey there...I hope you're having a great weekend.

Wish I had something creative to share but everything of late has been for DT stuff which you will see soon. Today I did a little blog hopping and came across a few scrap rooms which got me motivated to do a clean up in my own humble space. 

So I thought why not take a few piccies and show you where I can be found every night crafting my little heart out :-) 

My room is tiny - only 3m square - it used to be our sons bedroom when he was a baby - until we extended, building on a second level and then it became the room under the stairs and quite perfect for my little crafting nook.

Nothing in here is fancy. But it's very functional and fairly well organised and it's MINE :-))

This gorgeous (lol) pink storer is a throw out from my daughters bedroom - rather than toss it I thought I'd put it to good use for my 6x6 paper pads and some stamp sets. Above it is my Simply Renee Clip It Up Ribbon Storer. This is what you see on the left as you walk into my room.

Beside this is the built in wardrobe......

All my papers and cardstock are stored on the top shelf, then some punches and then DT boxes of product, completed cards and on the bottom photo albums and my boxes of MHC flowers.

Around the wall from the cupboard is the door through to the garage. On the back of it I store some 12x12 paper sets....

...and on the front of it is my border punch storage....

Around from this is my work desk and peg board storage -

To the right of my desk is an old set of drawers Pop made for the kids cupboards eons ago - it holds all my stationery supplies/ crafting tools/ adhesives/ etc.....

....this is where I do my die cutting - it's the little space under the stairs.

Around from that is my computer hutch which stills needs a tidy up - tonights job!

You can see on my 'puter screen Michelle Grant's blog. A little blog surfing led me to her blog today and I loved her scraproom tour - in case you're into scraprooms like I am there's a little hint ;-x)

....and there you have it - my happy place :-)

Thanks for dropping in to see me tonight - I'll be back to share some DT work for Scrapbook Boutique on Tuesday - hope to see you then.

xLinda

It's coming.....

Manor House Creations is having its first ever blog hop. It begins next Sunday the 6th of May at 8am (Australian Eastern Standard time) at the Manor House Creations blog and goes until midnight on Tuesday 8th of May. There are 4 fabulous prize packs, chock full of beautiful Manor house creations flowers to be won.

 We want to get the word out to as many people as possible, so, as well as these prizes, we are also offering one bonus 'mystery' prize for anyone who advertises our blog hop on their blog. (Prize drawn randomly).

All you have to do is advertise our blog hop, on your blog (anytime from now til the start of the hop) to be in the running to win this prize, and leave a link to your post on our blog, or Facebook page. We can’t tell you what the prize is, but we can tell you it contains some gorgeous Manor House Creations flowers :)

And remember to put the 6th to the 8th of May in your diary, cos you don’t want to miss this one.

xLinda

 

It's Coming! The MHC Mother's Day Blog Hop :-))

Manor House Creations is having its first ever blog hop....... It begins Sunday 6th of May at 8am (Australian Eastern Standard time) at the Manor House Creations blog and goes through until midnight on Tuesday 8th of May.

There are 4 fabulous prize packs, chock full of beautiful Manor House Creations flowers to be won.

 We want to get the word out to as many people as possible , so, as well as these prizes, we are also offering one bonus 'mystery' prize for anyone who advertises our blog hop on their blog. (prize drawn randomly).

All you have to do is advertise our blog hop, on your blog, anytime prior to the start of the hop to be in the running to win this prize, and leave a link to your post on our blog, or facebook page. We can’t tell you what the prize is, but we can tell you it contains some gorgeous Manor House Creations flowers :).

And remember to put the 6th to the 8th of May in your diary, cause you don’t want to miss this one. 

I'll see you there:-)

Linda

 

The Sisterhood

I enjoy a beautiful interior design blog that speaks to my shabby heart :-) and tonight Layla at The Lettered Cottage shared this wonderful video of Kelly Corrigan speaking about what it is to be a woman. It touched me - I cried, smiled, nodded in agreement and thought I must share it here in case you haven't seen it....

I hope you enjoy it too:-)

xLinda